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Giving New Life To Old World (WIP)

Began work on this tonight. A thirty year old campaign that I am finally modernizing.

I am beginning with a world scale poster sized map. I cant put my finger on it, but something just doesn't look right to me. It's not a true duplicate of the original so the problem is not related to that, just something doesn't look right already, and I am still placing continents. Ideas any one?

I realize it kinda overhauls your entire map, but my first thought is that (pending any continents on the upper 1/4 of the map) you could easily move the edge of the map to just to the right of the lower central continent and get the big one on the whole page without having it go over the edge. That's my only idea at this point.

On an unrelated and trolling note... IMMEDIATELY upon viewing this map I thought of these guys

WOW MUPPETS! Havent thought about6 them in too long...
Good point about center. The original campaign began on the big island in NW quadrant so the map started with that in center and developed around it. But 30yrs later I think a left shift might be in order.